Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Mark Haney <mhaney@××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Help! New install and New User to linux - Gentoo!
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 06:17:30
Message-Id: 44472746.5030803@ercbroadband.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] Help! New install and New User to linux - Gentoo! by Christopher E
1 Christopher E wrote:
2 > hello All,
3 >
4 > I have been for the last couple of days (4) days trying to get this
5 > system up and running and I am having a number of probs and below is a
6 > list of them
7 >
8 > I get all these errors when booting up:
9 >
10 > !! The root block device is unspecified or not detected
11 > at the prompte I can type in /dev/sda6 and it will boot then the
12 > following comes after this
13 >
14 > mkdir: Cannot creat directory '/newroot/tmp/.initrd':
15 >
16 Looks to me like the install disk can't find a hard drive. What kind of
17 hard drive/system is this? The other failures I think are pretty common
18 on most boot/install/live media as it tries to load many different
19 modules to get a basic system up for you to continue the install.
20
21 > Failed to load pcspkr [!!]
22 > Failed to load skge
23 > Failed to load ati_remote
24 > Failed to load dm_mirror
25 > Failed to load dm_mod
26 > Failed to load pdc_adma
27 > Failed to load sata_mv
28 > Failed to load ahci
29 > Failed to load sata_qstor
30 > Failed to load sata_uli
31 > Failed to load sata_sil24
32 > Failed to load lidata
33 > Failed to load sl811_hcd
34 > Failed to load usbcore
35 >
36 > Sincerely,
37 > christopher
38 >
39 > PS: this help is NOT for personal or commaul gain its for a non-profit
40 > org project
41 >
42 >
43
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